The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE Daily Dinner Horn is the name of a
paper at Paris, Tex

an advertisement.
The Provincetown CIass.) Grand Bank Fleet
have as their total seasons catch, taken $4,000
quintals, against 10000 last year.
THE oldest Consul in the United States in
point of service is thought to be Horatio j.
Sprague, who was appointed to the Consulate at
Gibraltar in 1916.
The Dominion of Canada is in debt to the ex-
tent of S229 SOC, 900, fully $50 per head of popu
lation. The Dominion debt has increased
S3 467, 500 since June /.
QUEEN MARGARET, of Italy, has had capable
Jewish Instructors can read the Old Testament
in Hebrew with ease, and has collected large
Hebrew library, with the latest works on Jewish
literature.
MOSQUITOES in China have a very poisonous
sting In Tientsin hospital there were at one
time this summer man with an abscess in his
face and another with blood poisoning from the
bite of the insects
THE jackson (Mich.) police force, sixteen in
number, weighs 2,9S2 pounds is $40 years old.
and "a feet in height. Its feet are 800 inches in
length. it wears size 116 hat, and has 521 but
tons on its clothing
OF MISS ANNA LARNER, who died recently at
Bulltown, KY, aged los years, it is told that she
never wore glasses, retained her memory unim-
paired until death, and was not ill single day
after reaching maturity.
A SAN Francisco MAN who refused to pay a
bill of 1886 30 for twenty-five hours work put
on his teeth, was sued by the dentist for the
amount. The court cut the charges down to
$50, which the defendant willingly paid.
A VAssAR DIICH.) BARBER has a baby ten
months old that caught live mouse the other
day and proceeded to eat it, hide, hoofs and
all The squealing vermin was rescued, for
tunately, before tie baby had succeeded in its
design.
THE new dancing slippers have Louis XIV"
heels, with stitching round them. The hand
soonest ones are merely foxed with kid or
leather, the vamps and quarters being Of satin
to match the dress. The bronze foxing is espe-
cially rich.
THERE is bad blood between whites and blacks
in the neighborhood of Burdette Washington
county, Mississippi, and several hostile encount-
erS have taken place In one of these E. A.
Sullivan and another white man, named
Delarue. were shot and seriously, though rot
fatally wounded.
A LONGTIME CLOSE OBSERVER of the weather
! in Cincinnati predicts a long and severe winter.
He bases his opinion on what he lays down as
natural law, that early SHOWS or early freezes
are certain precursor of a severe and extended
cold spell. He also asserts that very severe
winters invariably follow excessively hot sum
merS.
GEORGE GOODWIN, while riding along in the
mountains near Wetmore, Col, herding stock
and playing on a French horn, saw coming
toward him coyote. He quickly dsmounted
still blowing the horn, and procured club
The wolf seemed unconscious of danger, and
allowed him to come so close that he killed it
with the club.
In NEWARK, O., Friday last. while ex-Con-
gresham and ex Supreme Judge Hon Gibson
Atherton engaged in a lawsuit, he suddenly
lost his mind, and will have to be placed in an
insane asylum. He had an attack of paralysis
two years ago, and had been advised by his
physicians and friends to stop work, but would
not consent to do so.
In its efforts to find the true boundary line
between itself and Massachusetts,, New Hamp-
shire sent to the record office in London and
procured fac SMILES of the orders of the King
in Council and of the old maps and surveys
These latter were compared with the recent sur
veys of a United States Engineer, and the two
were found to be almost identical.
LEVI PAINTER, a California farmer saw All
Cue, Chinaman helping himself to apples in
his orchard, and he fired a couple of charges of
birdshot into the heather All Cue brought suit
against Painter, who was sentenced to pay $3.50
He appealed to the Supreme Court, but the SEN
tence was sustained, and Mr.. Painters shot cost
him, all told, about 81 900 Ten cents would
have paid for t he fruit that All Cue had taken.
VIRGINIA is the great peanut-bearing State
and most of the crop is grown in the counties
south and east of Petersburg After Virginia,
Tennessee and North Carolina produce the larg
est crops. In 1874 Virginia produced 225 goo,
Tennessee 10000 and North Carolina 60 00J
bushels. In 1884, Virginia's crop was 1250O00
bushels, Tennessee 100000, and North Carroll
ma 10000 The average yield is forty bushels
per acre; the average price 81 bushel.
A REPRESENTATIVE of an exchange in neigh
boring county recently met at a railroad station
pretty child of about years of age, whom he
found to be the daughter of car tracer"
The father stated that he was obliged to travel
through various sections of the country in
search of lost cars, and that the child had been
his companion in his journeys since she was
nine months old She had never been sick he
added, although constantly exposed to the many
changes incident to life on the railroad.
AT the Comstock silver mines in Virginia City
mining science has reached its highest point,
according to a San Francisco newspaper which
says that they carry water down a vertical shaft
to the depth of 200 feet, and then gear it back
to the surface, running the gigantic mills by the
1,7OO-foot pressure. When the plan was sug
it; but now it's proved success, and furnishes
a power UNNECESSARILY greater and cheaper
than anything hitherto applied in mining
THE Monongahela pa Republican says: A
letter passed through the post office this morn
ing from Green Center, Iowa, on the envelope
of which was printed Prepare to meet your
God, " with the following inscription thereon:
To Washington county and Pennsylvania
State
To Fallowfield station, and there let me Law.
Till Ollie NJ. Winnett carries me away
IT WOULD SEEM as if the St Louis street car
companies would soon abandon the cable-trac-
lion and horses and adopt electrical motors
The only question as yet to be decided is which
of the motors will be contracted for The street
car companies will demand from the electrical
people a guarantee that the motors will work ms
well at the end of the first year as they do at
the outset. The motor people are willing to put
up the plants and guarantee that the cost of
running as compared with horsepower, will be
only one-half
A STREET FIGHT occurred between factory girls
at Paterson, N. j., Saturday night. Annie Klees
ring poisher. who lives on Bloomfield street
Hobokeu has been annoyed for some time nv n
number OF girls as she came from the ferry who
would make audible remarks about her relations
with Charles Smith, lemon peddler These
girls, by Iuse, got Annie to go to a lonely sDot
on Hohoken avenue where eight of them attack
ed her. The young woman had brought a raw
hide with her for safety. and by its vigorous use
soon routed the attacking party
HAROLD DE MURAT, first officer of the Estalla
which sailed from Valparaiso to Puget Sound
was on deck when a negro boy who was TRYING
to furl the mainsail was thrown overheard nv n
lurch or the vessel. Murat ordered the helm
put hard down and the long boat lowered
out the sea was so heavy that the men would
not obey. Then he alone ciIt away a light boat
who was 300 yards astern. He got him intr tha
boat. rOWel hack N he shin bslnoJ Wy